As someone I’d still consider a noob, I did this less than a month after getting a new laptop last January. I probably broke something trying to get the headphone jack working on it and then Bluetooth stopped working properly as well after installing Steam, so I started over. All I know for certain is I ended up destroying a folder I shouldn’t have on accident, which bricked the system pretty much and made nothing launchable, terminal included. This was on MX and haven’t had issues since reinstalling.
It’s kind of a moot point now, but I’ve definitely been keeping snapshops from timeshift just in case I truly break something and can’t fix it, like the time I somehow nearly bricked Plasma by just trying to install virtualbox.
As someone I’d still consider a noob, I did this less than a month after getting a new laptop last January. I probably broke something trying to get the headphone jack working on it and then Bluetooth stopped working properly as well after installing Steam, so I started over. All I know for certain is I ended up destroying a folder I shouldn’t have on accident, which bricked the system pretty much and made nothing launchable, terminal included. This was on MX and haven’t had issues since reinstalling.
configure automatic snapshots and invest in a few terrabytes of storage on a home cloud, like a NAS server
It’s kind of a moot point now, but I’ve definitely been keeping snapshops from timeshift just in case I truly break something and can’t fix it, like the time I somehow nearly bricked Plasma by just trying to install virtualbox.